breastlessadj.
/ˈbrɛs(t)ləs/, U.S. /ˈbrɛs(t)ləs/ Lacking or without a breast or breasts. Also (of a woman): having small breasts.Apparently not recorded in the 18th cent.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [adjective] > having no
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bustless1857
1660 J. Trapp Comm. Holy Script. (Canticles viii. 10) 401 And whereas lately I was looked upon as breastless, vers. 8. Now my breasts are fashioned, Ezek. 16.7. yea, they are grown far greater than those of mine elder sisters; so that they look like towers.
1818 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) V. lvii. 526 That Amazon was a Greek name, signifying Breastless, appears to have been a late and an unfounded imagination.
1861 G. Rorison Three Barriers 90 Which breastless tribes are Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes.
1923 Nash's & Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 395/1 She was straight, she was breastless, she was boyish.
2012 Plymouth Herald (Nexis) 12 Oct. 3 An artist who underwent a double mastectomy following breast cancer is urging other breastless women to ‘celebrate their differences’ with a unique photography project.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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